Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-14

Is QnQer arrest LIT. NOrJu Is q DFOtner-
in-law OF DR.. Jackson. chisi surgeon
masked men appeared at the jail and
demanded the keys. This demand was re-
fused and the mob broke down the large
irGu door and in fifteen minutes had Chris
tianson in their possession. He wastaken
to the bridge crossing the Wabash river,
where he was twice strung up the first
time without the desired, result, but the
second time his life was sx~tinguished, the
man dying at 12:45. The lynching was
witnessed by about LOCO people.
Merchants OF Walla WaIla, Wash, COM
plain to the Interstate commissioners that
the freight per 100 pounds on cotton piece
goods from Chicago to Walla Walla Is
$4.70, while to Portland, Or, $50 miles
further, it Is only $1.20 per 100 pounds.
Richard Cronan, while attempting to
swim across the Niagara river, starting
IRON the MAID OF the MIST landing was
caught in the current and carried down
through the whirlpool rapids. Cronan
came over the falls from Boston q week
ago.
For the Fourth OF July celebration Port
land, Oregon performed an unprecedented
feat in the "a OF fireworks. 1t vas the il.
Elimination Of the summit OF Mount Hood,
the tallest snow-coyered peak in Oregon.
IL, 720 feet high.
Private Thomas N. Basemanottb Tia
Second United states< eaya7ry. sE,n
Billed tJsstSefgeant Samuel M~sB46phef,
i1ss6same troop. at the Preside barraks,
Saa Francisco. The sergeant bad repri-
manded 8atmare Tor being intoxicated.
At Glendale, Mont, a brewery was burn
ed and also Peter Schawer, the proprietor,
who was sleeping on the second floor, was
burned to death.
At Lewiston. H., j. f. Logan. city mar
shall, was shot and killed by George Welde,
who wal intoxicated. The murder was
without p~rovocation. Threats OF lynch
ing Welde are made,
The following pensions have been grant
ed; Observation-Disclosures A. s. DEVON,
Waupaca; original, R. A. Bailey. Milwaukee,;
j. Thatcher, Barabop; w. Struthers, Har-
mony; s. Ramsey, Reedsburg; 7. Linton,
Mount Hope; J. McNaughton, Monterey:
j. Malloy, Mitchell. a. Cooley, Heart
Rrains; J.. Tihms, La Crosse; J.. Cranie,
Chippewa Falls; j. ]. Enhilder, Neillsville;
j. Feight, Hillsboro; G. w. Briggs, Grand
Rapids; J.. Williams, Alton. DakotaAW.
H. Gates, Deadwood; NJ. Kane, Jr., Dan.
forth; A. Small, Fargo; j. w. Todd, Mime.
sela. Minnesota-Mother R. p Carpenter,
Sank Rapids; original. W. Martin, Lake
City; J. Mahoney, Bloomington; Z. Nc.
Grew, Chatfeld; j. Beatty, Anoka; q. l..
j. Graham, Mankato; T. Magill, New York
Mills; J. Gray, Frazee City; w. Dean,
Hutchinson; J. Smith, Kilkenny; w. r.
Tubbs, Stewartville; c. Stenger, Mortified.
E. L. Harper, OF the Fidelity National
bank at Cincinnati, now in Jail awaiting
trial. says: He had no idea OF any disas-
ter to the bank, and that he bought stock
the day before the closing and 6nly two
days before put S30,0 00 ~indeposit. II the
bank examiner had not come there Would
have been no trouble. He. Gid not operate
in secret, and all the directors were respon-
sible.
Lieut.. Wilcox, convicted OF duplicating
his pay accounts and sentenced to two
years 10 the state prison, was carried to
saltwater Mimi, under a guard OF colored
soldiers.
Some days ago the Manitoba aud North
ern Pacific railroad companies were repre-
scented before the railroad commissioners
by Attorney Cough in the matter OF the
proposed reduction Of the passenger tariff
Of those two roads to three cents per mile.
Mr.. clough presented only part ofhis testi-
mony al to Why the roads should not be
required to make the reduction, and the
heating in the case win be completed july
IA.
George Trent, alias Frank Vance, alias
Gearge Smith, alias +. N. Conehay. went
to Chicago. He was a good-looking blonde,
twenty.seven years old. His last cogno-
men was Conshay, and under it, being an
| expert operator, he obtained q situation
here with the Western Union Telegraph
company. He was arrested by the Pinker-
ton Defective agency and taken to st.
Paul. His offences are forgery, stealing,
general confidence frauds, &c.
A Washington special says that the Ben.
son, Mimi, Ian officers, in answer to Com
missioner Sparks, who demanded an expla-
nation OF the charge that they had illegal
~ allowed filings on indemnity lands, state
that the charge was absolutely without
foundation; that application to enter such
lands had been made, but the land officers
would not receive them because they were
railroad lands.
The business for the Fargo land office
for the quarter ending July 1 is as follows:
Cash sales OF acres, 9,349; fees, SIG, SIS.
Homestead entries. number, les; acres,
25, TAI; fees, S1,625; commissions, 81, $50;
homestead proofs. 16e: acres, 10, $40; fees,
80, 231. Timber entries, 152; acres, 49,
ZIG; fees. 81 500; commission, $611. Tim
Der proofs. 6; acres, $50; commission, S24.
Soldiers statements, z; fees, S160; COM
mission, so. Total receipts, S22, 974.51.
At Galesburg. ILL.,, the jury in the Jim
McCarroil case returned a verdict Of guilty
and fixed the punishment at twelve years
in the penitentiary. McCarroll is the last
OF the celebrated Farmers & Mechanics
bank robbers to be punished.
Secretary Fairchiid dismisses from the
service the head OF a treasury division,
Oscar j. Harry who was arrested for de-
frauding the government by means OF
bogus claims. He confessed his guilt.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, the only surviv-
ing child of Horace Greeley, lives on her
fathers Chappaqua farm with two lady
friends.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland will
visit Utica shortly.
Michigan expects a wheat yield Of $751;.
600, 600 bushels.
Ferdinand GeIdowski, furniture manufac
turer, East Cambridge, has prepared a
statement; liabilities, Slos, 900; assets,
$40. 1000.
General Master Workman Powderly in
the Journal OF United Labor says: 1.-THE
moment the grain or produce gambler
stacks the cards, and announces that there
is a scarcity in O certain article of food,
and the prices go up in consequence, every
member should resolve that until the un-
hallowed hand OF the speeulator has been
removed from the control OF the article in
question, not a pound nor an ounce more
than eau be avoided, viii be purchased.
Had | the power vested in me to make the
order imperative, / would order an eter.
nal boycott OF every grain apdstock gamb-
Ter in the United States aud Canada
Queen Victoria will visit Lord Salisbury
ut Hatfield house In Heriordshire on the
18th inst.
Father Francis Dent of Little Valley, N.
Y, has been placed In the pe~nitentiary to
serve seven months for criminal libel. He
issued q circular charging Father Ham
nell, another priest, with ~wronging and
numbering one Maggie Bauer.
The constitutional convention OF Utah
adopted it's constitution. The planks re-
garding bigamy, polygamy. representation
for the minority and separation OF church
and state were adopted, The vote OF the
people viii be taken in August. Only those
who have taken the test oath" can vote
on the certiication.
Hidalgo outruns dry Monolope in the
Long Branch handicap by the shortest
OF heads and Hanover WINS $1,000 al a
gallop.
George Gould, the Oldest son Of Jay
Gould, is seriously III with intermittent
fever.
Considerable work is being done at the
present time by way OF extending different
railroads in the Northwest. The track,
layers on the Montana extension of the
Manitoba have reached Popular riven
210 miles west o. Minot. For 23o miles
west of this point, as far as Fort Assina.
boine, a continual line of graders are at
work. and the grade is practically COM
pleated to that point. which is 440 miles
west oil Minot. and within los miles OF the
Great Falls of the Missouri.
Commander Charles lie Strange, OF the
British dispatch boat Surprise, who mys
teriously disappeared from Marseilles, ID
believed to be sale in Brussels.
Charles Henry Burggemann, a well known
German publicist. is dead, aged seventy